Brooklyn Daily Eagle
26 June 1935

DR. LOW MAKES DEBUT WITH GRADUATION TALK
       Back to the scene of former good times went Dr. J. Herbert LOW last 
night.  Standing on the same stage from which he graduated students and 
introduced commencement speakers for 17 years, Dr. LOW made his debut as a 
commencement speaker. 
       Students -- more than 750 of them -- who were pupils at Erasmus Hall 
High School while Dr. LOW was principal, sat back in the rows of seats on the 
stage and applauded their former principal, who returned to them on a 
memorable night, their last as students of Erasmus.
       Dr. LOW, in his commencement address, reminisced about the past and 
compared that "recollected past" with the "obvious present."
       "Looking back over the years I spent at Erasmus," he said, "I cannot 
help but compare them with today.  I find, quite naturally, several great 
differences.  But the most remarkable change noticeable is that which has 
taken place in the student body.
       "Students then," he added, "were eager seekers after knowledge, even 
as they are today, but then regulations, rules, laws kept them from 
developing an individual personality with which to treat their education and 
distinguish their culture.  Now, self-governing bodies have been introduced 
in a majority of the schools and for once the student has learned to 
appreciate the value of being self-reliant."
       Dr. LOW, in summing up the qualities of both the student of 18 years 
ago and the student of today, said that "the student of today is by far the 
better, the more desirable, the finer citizen of the two.  he is interested 
in education in a practical way and he applies education to life with an eye 
to the future."
       Dr. John F. McNEILL, principal, presided and presented the candidates 
for diplomas.  George J. DAVIDSON, senior grade adviser, conferred the 
diplomas and presented the awards.

Winners of awards were:
       Erasmus Hall medal,  Robert HERZOG; 
Alfred P. McNULTY medal, Victor KAUNITS; 
Nell FAY medal, Marjorie TAYLOR; 
New York Classical Club medal, Lansing ROBINSON.

       HOLMES medals -- 
Eric CARLSON, 
Arthur BLOCK, 
Henry ALBERT, 
Elsie MARGUILES,
Thelma BARISH, 
Seth DABNEY, 
Vernon DIAMOND, 
Bertram GOLSTEIN, 
Lansing ROBINSON , 
Jerome GROSSMAN, 
Arthur FEFFERMAN (or PEFFERMAN), 
Howard HAUSMAN, 
Victor FUTTER (or PUTTER) and Robert HERSOG.

       Rensselaer Institute medal, Robert HERZOG (or HERSOG); 
German medal, Arthur BLOCK; 
Economics medal, Joseph SCHERER; 
French medal, Jerome KURSHAN; 
St. Gaudens medal, Veniselos KANELLIS; 
Mathematics medal, Robert  HERSOG. 

       German medal, Victor KAUNITS; 
Latin medal, Lansing Medal; Pan-American medal, Moe ABRAMSKY; 
Boynton medal, Robert HERSOG; 
Physiography medal, Arthur BALLER; 
Spanish medal, Jerome GROSSMAN.

[Transcriber's Note -- The above was typed as it appears in article but was 
typeset incorrectly by paper.  Latin medal recipient most likely Lansing 
ROBINSON.]

       Chemistry medal, Robert HERSOG and Carol WEILL; 
French medal, Evelyn HARRIS; 
Lefkowitz medal, Henry FEFFER; 
Music medals, Daisy STONE, Marvin HERBERT and Ralph GROVER.  



Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by Kate Fitzpatrick.
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